Today, adolescents face various issues, including family and school conflicts, unrequited love, unwanted pregnancies, alcohol and drug abuse, smoking, and others.
Today, adolescents face various issues, including family and school conflicts, unrequited love, unwanted pregnancies, alcohol and drug abuse, smoking, and others.
To provide assistance to adolescents in difficult life situations, consultative groups (gynaecologists, paediatricians, psychologists, urologists) have been established at Youth-Friendly Centres.
The Centres provide assistance to adolescents and youth in maintaining and strengthening their reproductive, psychological, and somatic health FREE OF CHARGE, ANONYMOUSLY, AND CONFIDENTIALLY (one can seek help without providing passport details or place of study).
The objective of establishing the centres is to increase awareness and motivation for a healthy lifestyle, provide conditions for adolescent socialisation, and ultimately improve the reproductive, psychological, and somatic health of young people.
The Centre's activities are aimed at:
increasing adolescents' and youth's knowledge about a healthy lifestyle, reproductive health, and STIs/HIV;
acquiring and strengthening skills for a healthy lifestyle and appropriate social and reproductive behaviour;
forming motivation to apply acquired knowledge and skills in one's own behaviour.
Psychologists provide counselling in the following areas:
parent-child relationships (issues of child-rearing, communication with parents, conflict resolution, understanding between children and parents)
communication problems (shyness, conflict, fear of peers, teachers, fear of public speaking)
emotional problems (anxiety, school phobias, aggression, lack of empathy)
crisis states (significant loss, unhappy love, loneliness, violence, physical trauma, etc.)
The Centres operate on the basis of:
1. Healthcare Institution "Vitebsk Regional Children's Clinical Centre": Vitebsk, Chkalova St., 14; tel. 8-0212-37-24-50
2. Healthcare Institution "Novopolotsk Central City Hospital": Novopolotsk, Kalinina St., 5; tel. 8-0214- 51-90-90
3. Healthcare Institution "Orsha Central Polyclinic": Orsha, Pionerskaya St., 15, tel. 8-0216-50-57-50
4. Polotsk Children's Polyclinic: Polotsk, 18 E. Polotskaya St. E-mail: otkroven@bk.ru, Tel. 8-0214-46-76-55